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Time to Drive Child Labour From Value Chains
Patricia Jurewicz, director of the Responsible Sourcing Network, a project of As You Sow, has an op-ed piece at ethicalcorp.com, Time to Drive Child Labour From Value Chains:
During the recent International Cotton and Textile Fair in Tashkent, not a single western buyer signed a contract for Uzbekistan’s cotton, according to a report in the [...]
Sign Our Petitions to Get the Stores Where You Shop to Help Stop Forced Child Labour
Have you been reading all the news about the Uzbek dictator’s daughter and how labour and human rights campaigners were able to convince the organizers of Fashion Week to cancel Gulnara Karimova’s fashion show?
This seemed like an impossibility at one time, as Karimova was here last year and backed by powerful Fashion Week sponsor Mercedes [...]
US, EU Apparel Companies and Major Industry Association Pledge to Help End Forced Child Labor in Uzbekistan
An unprecedented number of U.S. and European apparel companies and a major industry association have signed a pledge to calle for the elimination of forced child labour in Uzbekistan, the Responsible Sourcing Network (RSN) reports.
More than 60 of the world’s best known apparel companies and brands as well as the American Apparel and Footwear [...]
Carter’s Takes a Stand Against Forced Child Labour in Uzbekistan
Change.org readers have once again succeeded with another petition, encouraging a major clothing brand to publicly oppose Uzbekistan’s use of forced child labour in its own cotton, the International Labor Rights Forum reports.
A statement released on July 19 by Carter’s (which also owns Osh Kosh B’Gosh), notes that “because of the systemic, government-sanctioned [...]
House of Lords Discusses Corporate Pledge Against Uzbek Cotton
The British House of Lords debated corporate governance this week, mentioning the issue of forced child labour in Uzbekistan in the cotton industry and a corporate pledge to oppose the practice .
Responsible Sourcing Network (RSN) has created a pledge to be signed by US and European companies and/or brands and retailers to publicly state a [...]
Victory on Petition to Children’s Place; Now Let’s Petition Carter’s
After more than 360 people contacted The Children’s Place about its policies related to forced child labor in cotton from Uzbekistan, the company has confirmed that it instructs its suppliers not to use Uzbek cotton, joining scores of other companies who have made similar commitments, the International Labor Rights Forum reports. [...]
Sign ILRF Petition to The Children’s Place on Uzbek Child Labour
*UPDATE! After more than 350 people signed this petition, the International Labor Rights Forum heard back from A Children’s Place. The company company has confirmed that it instructs its suppliers not to use Uzbek cotton, joining scores of other companies who have made similar commitments.
Jane Singer, Vice President of Investor and Media Relations [...]
Success for Petitioners: Gymboree Bans Use of Uzbek Cotton
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This just in from Change.org –
Children’s clothing manufacturer Gymboree is the latest company to take a stand against child labor by refusing to buy cotton from Uzbekistan. Their web announcement of the policy change comes after over 3,000 Change.org members sent in letters asking for the company to stop [...]
LL Bean vows to exclude Uzbek cotton
Of all the companies named by the International Labor Rights Forum on this year’s Sweatshop Hall of Shame for the use of Uzbek cotton, LL Bean was the fastest to respond, and vowed to (eventually) exclude it from their supply chain. Let’s hope their follow through is as exhaustive as their initial response was rapid.
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Following the trail of Uzbek cotton: taking names
Where does the cotton go, and how can Western end-users avoid consuming it? This is a question that needs a lot more exploration. According to a recent press release, the cotton fair in Tashkent was a great success, pushing the slave-harvested commodity out and probably into goods that stock our shops. Reportedly, contracts were signed [...]
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The production and export of cotton continues to be a major feature of the economy, politics and everyday lives of the people of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. This report analyses the nature and causes of their use of child labour in the cotton sector.